Rickey Henderson Quotes About Baseball
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When I was a little-leaguer, I was sort of famous for stealing bases - and it started only because my mom wanted to be sure where I was in the afternoons. Mom always used to say, "If you don't come home dirty, you didn't play a baseball game." So I always tried to get in a situation where I had to slide so that I could go home dirty.
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This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.
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Today I am the greatest of all time.
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My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.
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If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.
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It's always exciting that you can rub elbows with some of the greatest players who have ever played the game, and just being around the "family" again from baseball.
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I have always had fun playing the game of baseball because I loved it so much.
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I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.
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It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.
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In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.
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Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.
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You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.
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I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'
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